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• Winners named for £4.3bn Pagabo civils and enabling framework

  01-10-2026 23:19 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Graham has landed three of the five key civils collaborative partner roles on Pagabo’s new £4.3bn national civils and enabling works framework.
  The contractor takes the delivery role for England and Wales, plus the single collaborative partner appointments for Scotland and Northern Ireland.
  England and Wales is split into three specialist roles to give clients access to different expertise from the earliest stages of a project. Graham takes delivery, Costain sustainability and M Grou
  
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• John F Hunt sells power division to Finning

  01-10-2026 18:33 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Demolition giant John F Hunt Group has sold its temporary power division to Finning.
  The deal for John F Hunt Power Group and sister company Morris Machinery is understood to be worth more than £50m.
  John Hall, Chairman of the John F Hunt Group and founder of John F Hunt Power, said: “John F Hunt Power was born out of a practical challenge. During demolition projects throughout the 1980s and 1990s, we recognised the need for reliable temporary power solutions to support crane operati
  
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• Diesel-free plant fleet grows on Lower Thames Crossing

  01-10-2026 09:05 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  More than 30 zero-emission machines are now working on the £10bn Lower Thames Crossing project for National Highways with the diesel-free fleet set to hit 150 by peak construction in 2028.
  Work on the new road and tunnel under the River Thames began in early 2026, and is being carried out only using electric, HVO and hydrogen powered equipment and machinery.
  Machines currently at work include 20 tonne excavators, rollers, tractors, telehandlers and hydrogen generators.No diesel has been pe
  
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• Trio shortlisted for £5.6bn Oxfordshire reservoir

  01-10-2026 08:51 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Three heavyweight contracting teams have made the final cut in the race to build Thames Water’s £5.7bn White Horse Reservoir in Oxfordshire.
  The shortlisted teams bring together some of the world’s biggest infrastructure contractors, with Balfour Beatty, Bouygues and Italian group Webuild leading rival joint ventures.Shortlisted consortiaWFH JV – Webuild, Hyundai Engineering & Construction and FCC Construccion
  BMV+ – Bouygues Travaux Publics, J Murphy & Sons
  
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• Graham lands final Gateway 2 approvals at £530m Fallowfield

  01-10-2026 08:34 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Graham has secured full Gateway 2 building control approval for the University of Manchester’s £530m Fallowfield Campus redevelopment.
  The latest approvals clear all 29 blocks on the 3,300-room student scheme for construction, including seven buildings classed as higher-risk under the Building Safety Act.
  Gateway 2 approval has now been secured for all seven blocks reaching at least 18m or seven storeys, while approval has also been granted for the remaining 22 lower-rise buildings.G
  
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• New right-to-work rules and safety levy hit construction today

  01-10-2026 08:28 via constructionenquirer.com
  
  Sweeping new right-to-work rules come into force today forcing construction firms to check self-employed workers as part of a fresh crackdown on illegal migrant labour and rogue employers.
  Contractors hiring individual workers must now confirm they are legally entitled to work in the UK, bringing self-employed and non-standard labour much closer to the checks already required for employees.
  Until now, statutory right-to-work checks have largely applied to people classed as employees.New extended
  
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